Advocates Ask FTC, DOJ to Be Wary of Big Tech Auto Entry

Antitrust enforcers should “redouble” efforts to ensure competitive markets as Big Tech companies look to “entrench” themselves in the auto industry, more than 20 advocacy groups wrote FTC Chair Lina Khan and DOJ Antitrust Division Chief Jonathan Kanter Wednesday. Demand Progress, Fight for the Future, Media Alliance, Open Markets Institute, Our Revolution, Progress America, Public Citizen and Tech Oversight Project signed the letter. Google, Apple, Meta and Amazon are expanding into auto markets, the letter said, and “will ignore plain-language laws and regulations designed to protect competition, circumvent consumer privacy laws, and use their considerable market weight to disadvantage smaller competitors.”